GEORGE W. MENEFEE, an active and enterprising farmer of Wabash Township, residing on section 10, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the year 1824. His parents were also native of Loudoun County, and later moved to what is now Monongalia County, West Virginia, where they spent the remainder of their lives, the father dying in 1861, aged seventy-four years, and the mother dying in 1876.
George W., our subject, grew to manhood in Virginia, being reared on a farm and educated in the district schools. He was united in marriage in Virginia, February 22, 1849, to Miss Margaret Stoops, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1833, a daughter of James Stoops, Sr., who came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852.
To Mr. and Mrs. Menefee have been born eleven children, of whom six still survive - Mary E., Nancy F., Edgar P., Virginia, Carrie L. and David C. Mr. Menefee came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852, settling in Wabash Township, where he has since devoted his attention to his farm, and is classed among the old and respected pioneers of the county[Biographical and Historical Record - Adams and Wells Co. Indiana Lewis Publishing Co. Chicago, IL 1887].
George W., our subject, grew to manhood in Virginia, being reared on a farm and educated in the district schools. He was united in marriage in Virginia, February 22, 1849, to Miss Margaret Stoops, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1833, a daughter of James Stoops, Sr., who came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852.
To Mr. and Mrs. Menefee have been born eleven children, of whom six still survive - Mary E., Nancy F., Edgar P., Virginia, Carrie L. and David C. Mr. Menefee came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852, settling in Wabash Township, where he has since devoted his attention to his farm, and is classed among the old and respected pioneers of the county[Biographical and Historical Record - Adams and Wells Co. Indiana Lewis Publishing Co. Chicago, IL 1887].
GEORGE W. MENEFEE, an active and enterprising farmer of Wabash Township, residing on section 10, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the year 1824. His parents were also native of Loudoun County, and later moved to what is now Monongalia County, West Virginia, where they spent the remainder of their lives, the father dying in 1861, aged seventy-four years, and the mother dying in 1876.
George W., our subject, grew to manhood in Virginia, being reared on a farm and educated in the district schools. He was united in marriage in Virginia, February 22, 1849, to Miss Margaret Stoops, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1833, a daughter of James Stoops, Sr., who came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852.
To Mr. and Mrs. Menefee have been born eleven children, of whom six still survive - Mary E., Nancy F., Edgar P., Virginia, Carrie L. and David C. Mr. Menefee came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852, settling in Wabash Township, where he has since devoted his attention to his farm, and is classed among the old and respected pioneers of the county[Biographical and Historical Record - Adams and Wells Co. Indiana Lewis Publishing Co. Chicago, IL 1887].
George W., our subject, grew to manhood in Virginia, being reared on a farm and educated in the district schools. He was united in marriage in Virginia, February 22, 1849, to Miss Margaret Stoops, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1833, a daughter of James Stoops, Sr., who came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852.
To Mr. and Mrs. Menefee have been born eleven children, of whom six still survive - Mary E., Nancy F., Edgar P., Virginia, Carrie L. and David C. Mr. Menefee came to Adams County, Indiana, in 1852, settling in Wabash Township, where he has since devoted his attention to his farm, and is classed among the old and respected pioneers of the county[Biographical and Historical Record - Adams and Wells Co. Indiana Lewis Publishing Co. Chicago, IL 1887].
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